Book Review: The Essential Guide to Healing: Equipping All Christians to Pray for the Sick

For the first time, pastors and bestselling authors Bill Johnson and Randy Clark team up to equip all Christians to minister healing. Sharing inspiring and exciting stories—and grounded from start to finish in Scripture–Johnson and Clark lay out practical, proven, step-by-step guidance to ministering healing, including how to

The ministry of healing is not reserved for a select few. God’s miraculous healing is part of the Good News, and you, too, can become a powerful conduit for the healing power He loves to manifest.

“It is our hope that each of you will begin to pray for others to be healed after reading this book… and that some of you will discover that God has given you a gift of healing.”
—Randy Clark and Bill Johnson

Randy Clark is the founder of Global Awakening, a teaching, healing, and impartation ministry that crosses denominational lines. An in-demand international speaker, he is part of the Apostolic Network of Global Awakening and travels extensively for conferences, international missions, leadership training, and humanitarian aid. Randy and his wife, DeAnne, live near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Bill Johnson is the senior pastor of Bethel Church in Redding, California. A fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the power of the Spirit, he is the bestselling author of When Heaven Invades Earth. Bill and his wife, Beni, serve a growing number of churches through an apostolic network that has crossed denominational lines, partnering for revival. Bill and Beni live near Redding, California.

This is the first book I have reading on healing and the power of prayer.  This book seemed very practical and easy to read.  It starts off explaining how Randy was in a terrible car accident and obtained extensive injuries.  With the power of prayer, he experienced healing beyond the expectations of all.  He then went into ministry after his car accident at eighteen.  Bill on the other hand, had been brought up with a long family history of ministry, but just took a while to realize his own calling in ministry.

The book then goes on to tell some amazing stories of healing that Bill and Randy had been part of/witnessed first hand.  There is a section on the theology of healing that states miracles and healing are a gift that many Christians today are taught to not believe in due to the belief of supernatural existing or that God stopped miracles from happening after the Bible was sanctified.  Then the book shares passages from the Bible that reflect healing and miracles.  

The authors also mention that we have been taught that salvation means we are “forgiven of sin”. “It refers specifically to the forgiveness of sin, the healing of disease, and the deliverance from torment.  That is salvation.  Jesus made the provision needed to save the whole person – spirit, soul, and body: 

Disclosure:  I received a copy of this book from Chosen Books for this review.  The thoughts and feelings expressed are my own.  No other compensation was received to produce this review.